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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: TheVoxyn on January 29, 2010, 07:53:24 PM
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I was suprised to discover that there wasn't a thread for him, so here it is.
Grace is one of my all-time favourite albums, I can never seem to get enough of it.
Jeff had such an amazing voice, so sad his life ended so early...
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Man, I've heard some horror stories about what iskey does to laptos.
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every time I try to listen to Jeff Buckley that awful Watchmen sex scene haunts my dreams
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Why? They didn't use his version of the song. If they did the scene would've been 100x better.
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:facepalm: shame on u people ! i really didn't know there wasnt a topic about him. that way i would be honored to make it! shame on you :D! his works are sooooooooooo beautiful
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Jeff Buckley was truly amazing.
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Does anyone here have Live at Sin E? I've wanted to buy that for a long time, but it's always really expensive, so I always hold back. Is it very good? I find JB's live show was a real mixed bag. He could create towering new versions of some of his songs, and just throw others to the dogs.
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I'll edit the OP, as I feel ashamed to give one of my favourite artists a thread like this :p.
I'm looking at getting Grace on vinyl. Top 10 album for me, maybe top 5.
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Amazing vocalist taken far too young. There has been a thread about him not too long ago just FYI.
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Does anyone here have Live at Sin E? I've wanted to buy that for a long time, but it's always really expensive, so I always hold back. Is it very good? I find JB's live show was a real mixed bag. He could create towering new versions of some of his songs, and just throw others to the dogs.
I have the Legacy Edition (the entire set from that night as opposed to the 3-4 songs that are on the original EP release.) if thats what you mean. I'd recommend it, for sure. Its just guitar and vocals, but there are some amazing covers on there. Night Flight, Strange Fruit, the Dylan covers, The Way Young Lovers Do are all excellent. Strange Fruit has some rare lead guitar playing from him, which you don't hear very often in his other recordings, and there's an awesome Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan song on there that he sings in some foreign language, its pretty fun to listen to. The between song banter is pretty entertaining too.
TL;DR: Get the album.
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Sweet, cheers sneaky.
Yeah, if I buy it, I'll definitely get the whole set version.
It's strange, considering how much of his output that album has ended up representing, you never hear anyone talking about it.
Also, I found this a few months ago, hadn't heard of it until then. Hardly a brilliant song, but it's an interesting listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3JZkITEkA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui3JZkITEkA)
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Wow, that was lovely.
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I ordered live at sin-e a while ago, still hasn't arrived though. Can't wait to listen to it. I hadn't really listened to Buckley a few weeks ago, but he is one of my absolute favorite artists now.
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i have his cd copy of Led Zeppelin IV ;D
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Wha??
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Wha??
What are your favorite songs?
Right now I'm totally in love with 'Lover, you should have come over'. Can listened to it on repeat for ages without getting bored with it.
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Wha??
What are your favorite songs?
Right now I'm totally in love with 'Lover, you should have come over'. Can listened to it on repeat for ages without getting bored with it.
That song is awesome. I love how he can imitate the sound of a huge black choir backing with his overdubs. My favourite Buckley songs are probably Mojo Pin, Grace and Vancouver. Although Grace the album is such a masterpiece its hard to decide.
You're gonna love Sin-E. Stripped back Buckley, awesome covers, buns of steel (something like a 3 hour set).
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Wha??
What are your favorite songs?
Right now I'm totally in love with 'Lover, you should have come over'. Can listened to it on repeat for ages without getting bored with it.
That song is awesome. I love how he can imitate the sound of a huge black choir backing with his overdubs. My favourite Buckley songs are probably Mojo Pin, Grace and Vancouver. Although Grace the album is such a masterpiece its hard to decide.
You're gonna love Sin-E. Stripped back Buckley, awesome covers, buns of steel (something like a 3 hour set).
I really cannot wait for it to arrive. I've read a lot of awesome things about it and I seem to love anything Buckley lately.
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Wha??
What are your favorite songs?
Right now I'm totally in love with 'Lover, you should have come over'. Can listened to it on repeat for ages without getting bored with it.
That song is awesome. I love how he can imitate the sound of a huge black choir backing with his overdubs. My favourite Buckley songs are probably Mojo Pin, Grace and Vancouver. Although Grace the album is such a masterpiece its hard to decide.
You're gonna love Sin-E. Stripped back Buckley, awesome covers, buns of steel (something like a 3 hour set).
I really cannot wait for it to arrive. I've read a lot of awesome things about it and I seem to love anything Buckley lately.
Yeah man. I just got the Grace Around the World DVD which is pretty great too, I'd recommend that. I'd never seen footage of him on the road or in concert before, it seems like a pretty honest documentation. He can talk a lot of pretentious shite though. :lol
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Wha??
I won it in a contest. Jeff's estate gave it away among other things. It came with a notice that confirms it from his Estate, and the booklet includes a stamp of approval on the front.
I imagine Led Zeppelin IV was a disc Jeff got a lot of mile-age out of given the LZ influence on his music.
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Wha??
I won it in a contest. Jeff's estate gave it away among other things. It came with a notice that confirms it from his Estate, and the booklet includes a stamp of approval on the front.
I imagine Led Zeppelin IV was a disc Jeff got a lot of mile-age out of given the LZ influence on his music.
That's awesome!
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If you don't like Jeff Buckley you don't like real music.
Not really I guess but that's the way I feel about Jeff's music.
His cover of Bob Dylan's Mama You've Been On My Mind is simply fantastic.
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I don't think I've come across a Dylan cover by Jeff that I didn't like. In the Sin-e booklet his mama talks about a gig where he played Wind Cries Mary and dedicated it to her. I would LOVE to hear that.
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I don't think I've come across a Dylan cover by Jeff that I didn't like. In the Sin-e booklet his mama talks about a gig where he played Wind Cries Mary and dedicated it to her. I would LOVE to hear that.
Just making sure you know Wind Cries MAry is a Hendrix tune. I'm sure you do know that, but the way you worded it had me worried for a moment.
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I don't think I've come across a Dylan cover by Jeff that I didn't like. In the Sin-e booklet his mama talks about a gig where he played Wind Cries Mary and dedicated it to her. I would LOVE to hear that.
Just making sure you know Wind Cries MAry is a Hendrix tune.
:millahhhh
:lol
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Live at Sin-E finally arrived. Been listening to it all day, it's pretty awesome.
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After reading Neal Peart's book, Traveling music, I picked up a copy of Grace. Its a great album indeed. My question is, how many albums did he make?
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His only officially released studio album is Grace.
Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk contains all the work he did for his second album before he died. There are about 11 or 12 tracks which are more or less 'complete', and another 10 that are just him tossing about at home.
He also has quite a few live albums, I think all released after he died. I know of Live at Sin E, Live at L'Olympia, and Mystery White Boy.
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Just got done listening to "Eternal Life." Amazing song! Truly unique considering the rest of the tracks on the album.
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Too bad btw that Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk was never finished, there is some interesting stuff on there.
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Wow, if you look right now at my guitar you can see there's my capo on the 5th fret because I was learning "Hallelujah". DTF, you are creepy. You read my mind and my actions.
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I know of Live at Sin E
and Live at Bataclan were both live EPs that were released before he died.
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I might as well use this thread to ask this, cos I doubt anyone will have checked him out other than through Jeff.
Is anyone here a fan of Tim Buckley (Jeff's pop)? I've had a handful of songs of his for years, and finally went out and bought some albums a few months ago. Goodbye and Hello is a mixed bag, some brilliant stuff and some so-so, and Happy Sad is stellar start to finish.
For those who are completely new to him, he started in folk, but went very experimental as soon as he got to his second album - slowly moved to avant-garde-ey jazz folk, then eventually to funk or soul or whatever you might call it. And unlike most folk singers, who use very 'earthly' vocals, he could sing like three bastards, though his voice is quite different to Jeff's.
Great starting song would be I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain. I'm sure it's on YouTube.
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I bought Goodbye and hello, but I can't say it ever clicked. I like I never asked to be your mountain and Dolphins. I imagine they were towards the latter part of his career
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I Never Asked... is on Goodbye and Hello ???
If you wanna hear something interesting, check out a track of his called Gypsy Woman. 12 minutes of freak-out blues-ey folk jazz. With conga drums.
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Oh is it? I just remember getting it off the net at some point. I bought G&H in a bargain bin at real groovy along with some SikTh albums so it's fairly obvious which albums got the most attention.
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I just bought the 3-disc version of Live At Sin-é :hat it's incredible - I've heard some people declare it more essential than Grace, and I feel inclined to agree.
I also got Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk. The first disc is amazing and definitely lived up to Grace, and though the second is messier and a bit harder to swallow it has plenty of great tracks.
Why did he have to die :'(
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I picked up his Live at Chicago DVD for $2.00 at a flea market the other day after having heard nothing but Hallelujah. It's certainly interesting, and the guy's very talented, but I'm not quite sure what to think yet.
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I picked up his Live at Chicago DVD for $2.00 at a flea market the other day after having heard nothing but Hallelujah. It's certainly interesting, and the guy's very talented, but I'm not quite sure what to think yet.
I've never even heard of that :sad:
Listen to Lover, You Should've Come Over, Last Goodbye, Grace, and Everybody Here Wants You.
Oh, and I just heard Forget Her for the first time today. I think... it's my favorite :hefdaddy behind only maybe Lover.
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I picked up his Live at Chicago DVD for $2.00 at a flea market the other day after having heard nothing but Hallelujah. It's certainly interesting, and the guy's very talented, but I'm not quite sure what to think yet.
I've never even heard of that :sad:
Listen to Lover, You Should've Come Over, Last Goodbye, Grace, and Everybody Here Wants You.
Oh, and I just heard Forget Her for the first time today. I think... it's my favorite :hefdaddy behind only maybe Lover.
Sorry, it's actually Live in Chicago.
https://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Buckley-Live-Chicago/dp/0738900672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1277342617&sr=8-1
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Grace is one of the few albums that I enjoy listening from start to finish.
"Lilac Wine" is one of his best covers. I haven't heard the original, true, but oh my God if I'm in love with that song.
And has anyone else noted how the intro to "Eternal Love" resembles immensely to Led Zeppelin. He sure loved that band. Also, has this song been played in a "Smallville" soundtrack? Because once the song kicks in, that's the first thing that comes into my mind. It must be that he was truly ahead of his time, because that type of rock (in this song) started to kick in the 2000s. Musically he was a genius, but at swimming...
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This is my favorite compliment anybody ever said about Jeff.
The album that I've been listening to for the last 18 months is Grace by Jeff Buckley. He is a great, great singer. He has such an emotional range, doing songs by Benjamin Britten and Leonard Cohen as well as his own - such technique and command. When the Page/Plant tour hit Australia, we saw them and we were knocked out. It was very moving. Someone heckled him from the audience - 'Stop playing that heavy stuff!' - but he made the perfect reply: 'Music should be like making love - sometimes you want it soft and tender, other times you want it hard and aggressive.' I felt he paid us a great compliment with his music in that style.
Jimmy Page – Guitarist from Led Zeppelin/The Yardbirds/solo from Mojo Magazine, January 1997
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I also got Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk. The first disc is amazing and definitely lived up to Grace, and though the second is messier and a bit harder to swallow it has plenty of great tracks.
Yeah, aside from Satisfied Mind, I never listen to the second disc, it's too rough for me.
Dare I say it, probably my favourite track on Sketches is You and I. There's almost nothing there but his voice, but that's clearly what he was going for. At least, I really hope he wasn't planning to add anything more to it, cos it's perfect as it is. His singing creates the entire piece. It feels very complete to me.
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Holy shit! "Yard of Blonde Girls" is amazing!!!
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Arcaeus casts Resurrection
I just bought the 3-disc version of Live At Sin-é :hat it's incredible - I've heard some people declare it more essential than Grace, and I feel inclined to agree.
I also got Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk. The first disc is amazing and definitely lived up to Grace, and though the second is messier and a bit harder to swallow it has plenty of great tracks.
Why did he have to die :'(
Live at Sin-é is amazing indeed, some great stuff on there.
I got the Vinyl of Grace a few weeks ago. I'm not sure if I will ever get enough of that album.
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https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=206120129626&topic=10958
i'd love to read some more news about that. December 2010 was the reported projection, but at this point, December 2011 sounds closer to when it'll actually come out.
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Arcaeus casts Resurrection
I just bought the 3-disc version of Live At Sin-é :hat it's incredible - I've heard some people declare it more essential than Grace, and I feel inclined to agree.
I also got Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk. The first disc is amazing and definitely lived up to Grace, and though the second is messier and a bit harder to swallow it has plenty of great tracks.
Why did he have to die :'(
Yeah the legacy edition of Sin-e is fantastic. So much awesome material.
I quite like Sketches, Vancouver is probably my favourite track. Then there's Nightmares by the Sea which is awesome. And Witches Rave is pretty cool. Jeff wears his love for The Smiths on his sleeves on that track! The second disc is pretty much just made up of raw demos, takes a while to get into but its worth it. His cover of Back in NYC is pretty awesome. Pretty ballsy for just guitar and voice.
I think Mojo Pin is the definitive Buckley composition. It just has everything that Jeff was all about, soft moments, moments that kick you right in the teeth, soaring vocals, whispers, unique guitar sounds and chord voicings. I love that song so much.
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Jeff Buckley singing "I Shall Be Released" over the phone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxIbLf-7ig
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He was my favorite! Grace is one of my favorite albums. The title track is a breathtaking song, as well as Dream Brother. I also like the B-side, Forget Her, a whole lot.
Honestly, this guy made such incredible music with just a voice and a guitar. I love Sin-e, how he can be so sincere one moment and then so goofy the next. And he could do so much with a cover song! What a voice!
At least we have one album (I have on Vinyl) and it is in my favorite 3.
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Jeff Buckley singing "I Shall Be Released" over the phone
:hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvxIbLf-7ig
There is also a full version of that on Sin-é.
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Listening to Grace for the first time ever. Can't believe I've never bothered to listen to it, what a great album (so far)!
Also never realised what a big vocal influence he clearly was on Daniel Gildenlow.
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:tup
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Listening to Grace for the first time ever. Can't believe I've never bothered to listen to it, what a great album (so far)!
Also never realised what a big vocal influence he clearly was on Daniel Gildenlow.
Yeah that was the first two things I thought too. Unbelievable why I never took the time to fully listen to it.
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Listening to Grace for the first time ever. Can't believe I've never bothered to listen to it, what a great album (so far)!
Also never realised what a big vocal influence he clearly was on Daniel Gildenlow.
Take out "Eternal Life" and it is a perfect album. I like that song, it's just not quite up to par, it gets a bit annoying.
Corpus Christi Carol is an amazing rendition, also!
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Listening to Grace for the first time ever. Can't believe I've never bothered to listen to it, what a great album (so far)!
Also never realised what a big vocal influence he clearly was on Daniel Gildenlow.
Take out "Eternal Life" and it is a perfect album. I like that song, it's just not quite up to par, it gets a bit annoying.
Corpus Christi Carol is an amazing rendition, also!
I reckon swap out Lilac Wine instead, gah thats a snoozefest. And the road version of Eternal Life is much better.
I can't believe how awesome this album is. Hearing Mojo Pin into Grace is like the pinnacle of songwriting excellence. *gushes*
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I actually very much like Lilac Wine. It's mellow and haunting. I tend to like his more simple tunes. Last Goodbye, also, is a nice and catchy pop song but I think it's a bit overhyped. I mean, if there's a best song for Jeff Buckley it would rather be Grace or Dream Brother. Mojo Pin is a thousand times better live, also, especially in the Chicago recording :hefdaddy
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Dream Brother is amazing. I like the studio version of Mojo Pin for Lucas' guitar work. So awesomely atmospheric. Jeff was able to breathe so much life into these songs live though. I've yet to see someone perform with that much emotion; it feels like he could just go off the rails at any moment. So intense!
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The climax in 'Grace' is still in my top 10 favorite moments in music, ever. He sounds like he's been obsessed by demons and is trying to get them out. Or something. Anyway, it's freakin' amazing. I've heard the countless times, and there hasn't been one occasion without me getting shivers.
Jeff Buckley was a genius and one of my (and my band's) foremost influences. Sketches is awesome too.
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He sounds like he's been obsessed by demons and is trying to get them out. Or something.
Thats a pretty good description, I know what you mean. There are so many moments like that, especially in his live recordings; like his ranting on Dream Brother and Eternal Life. He could go from beautiful and haunting to evil and terrifying in the blink of an eye.
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Ugh Grace is just such a good album. After listening a few times on Spotify I decided I needed an actual copy, so popped to the shops after work and HMV had it for £4. :D
Gonna have to give Sketches a listen at some point.
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I feel like his guitar playing is way overshadowed by his singing. I think he was a fantastic player! Not as much in the skill level as the melodic sense he had in the instrument. I've never heard someone bring so much out of a simple clean electric guitar.
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Yeah, he uses some pretty awesome chord voicings as well. And Strange Fruit on Sin E shows he has some pretty decent solo chops.
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Ugh Grace is just such a good album. After listening a few times on Spotify I decided I needed an actual copy, so popped to the shops after work and HMV had it for £4. :D
Gonna have to give Sketches a listen at some point.
Be sure to give 'Live at Sin-é' a listen. It's also on Spotify, and it's amazing.
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I never really understood all the love for Jeff Buckley. Maybe I should give Grace another spin at some point.
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I never really understood all the love for Jeff Buckley. Maybe I should give Grace another spin at some point.
You should. Pay special attention to the title track and Dream Brother...
Kayo dot was greatly influenced by him, also ;)
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I reckon swap out Lilac Wine instead, gah thats a snoozefest.
Oh no you didn't.
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I reckon swap out Lilac Wine instead, gah thats a snoozefest.
Oh no you didn't.
I did. I don't see what's so amazing about it when you've got slices of fried gold like Dream Brother, Mojo Pin and Grace on either side of it. Overshadowed by the grandeur.
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Listening to Live at Sin-e now for the first time. 'Be Your Husband' sounds very cool with only stamps, claps and JB singing. Sick performance.
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I'm listening to it for the first time right now as well. I'm most of the way through though, at The Way Young Lovers Do.
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Live at Sin-é is so awesome :heart.
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I reckon swap out Lilac Wine instead, gah thats a snoozefest.
Oh no you didn't.
I did. I don't see what's so amazing about it when you've got slices of fried gold like Dream Brother, Mojo Pin and Grace on either side of it. Overshadowed by the grandeur.
It's haunting and beautiful.
It's maybe not one of the best, but definitely has more of a place on the album than Eternal Life.
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I reckon swap out Lilac Wine instead, gah thats a snoozefest.
Oh no you didn't.
I did. I don't see what's so amazing about it when you've got slices of fried gold like Dream Brother, Mojo Pin and Grace on either side of it. Overshadowed by the grandeur.
It's haunting and beautiful.
It's maybe not one of the best, but definitely has more of a place on the album than Eternal Life.
I just don't get it I suppose. To me its nowhere near as haunting or beautiful than the other tracks I mentioned. And Eternal Life gives the album the kick it needs to balance it out.
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I just heard the "Chocolate version" of Mojo Pin for the first time.
... :omg: :omg: :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
WOW
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I just heard the "Chocolate version" of Mojo Pin for the first time.
... :omg: :omg: :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
WOW
Never heard this. Read the lyrics... interesting.
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Fantastic!
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You know, my two favourite tracks on Live at Sin E are probably Be Your Husband and Hallelujah.
As in, the very first and very last track.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VfNtJuYitE
anyone seen this? this guy seems to be trying, almost too hard to be Jeff. Effort points. I guess he is an actor, since I saw him suggested for the Biopic, which has been pushed back to 2013 now.
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That was a little... cheesy. Good effort though I suppose. It'd be freaking hard to find someone to play Jeff if they're trying to find the voice too, like Val Kilmer in The Doors movie. If its just for looks, then get James Franco all up in it.
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James Franco would be a great match for Jeff.
I have all his releases but I always go back to Grace, it is a classic album.
A little morbid, but where did he drown? I thought it was the Mississippi but when I was at Sun Studios in Memphis last October they told me it wasn't there, but somewhere else, does anyone know?
Not that it makes a big difference, I was just curious.
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he drowned in "Wolf River" in Memphis
https://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Jeff_Buckley_-_Death/id/1528506
Franco might be the best to portray Jeff's personality/character. But in terms of looks, this guy Mark Rendall could be the closest I've seen.
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Who the heck is that guy? :lol I think Franco looks more like Jeff, tbh.
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I guess he's maybe best known from being in the Vampire movie "30 Days of Night."
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I Know It's Over is amazing.
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I Know It's Over is amazing.
Isn't it just? Jeff's version slays The Smiths' original. Like most covers he does I suppose.
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old bump.
Today would have been Jeff' 50th Birthday.
Love this version of Dream Brother:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONd_VDTKo8
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I am so lucky to have seen him live in the mid 90's live.
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For real! I looove him. Wish I could have seen him but was a kid when he died. Grace is incredible, as is Sin-e. Sketches has some good stuff on it (I love Nightmares by the Sea and Everybody Here Wants You) but I rarely listen to that one.
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Yeah. As soon as I heard Grace over WBCN in Boston I was all over the album and saw him the next year touring. So damn dynamic live.
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bump.
Graphic Novel Grace: Based on the Jeff Buckley Story (https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Based-Jeff-Buckley-Story/dp/1250196922/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1_nodl?crid=2V287XICRUZW0&keywords=jeff+buckley+graphic+novel&qid=1555358047&s=gateway&sprefix=jeff+buckey+graphic,aps,169&sr=8-1-fkmrnull) coming out this Tuesday, April 30th.
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bump.
for those who know/enjoy the collaboration Jeff did with Gary Lucas, I guess many tunes were never recorded and released that they wrote together.
Gary Lucas has decided to finally record and release them.
The 1st song was just released just yesterday, with Dave Combusti whose known as "The Niro"
"No One Must Find You Here"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0cHimWF-vE
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Necessary background: I think "Hallelujah" is perhaps the most over-rated song in the history of minstrels, bards, singer-songwriters, and rock stars. I've grown to almost despise that song.
Having said that, I like Buckley's version, one of the only ones I do like (I like the original too). But when I heard "Grace", I was floored. What a wonderful song (actually, the first three songs on the CD were equally jaw-dropping).